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I think a non-citizen should take a burner phone or clean phone and set all their social media to private before going. The risk is considerable and being place

I think a non-citizen should take a burner phone or clean phone and set all their social media to private before going. The risk is considerable and being placed into a holding cell for weeks or months, even when having a ticket home (as has happened to some) is a truamatic outcome. A citizen has a question to ask, on if they want to risk being one of the unfortunate examples to create a media wave of pushback, and if so; be prepared for a tricky interview. Obviously those with children and things to do might not want to take that risk. With all of this in mind: One might note the powerful hypocrisy of JD Vance's unexpected lecture to the governments of European allies demanding protections of free speech[0], while America's current border policy is the polar opposite of that. There's nothing wrong with being strict on people who you think are entirely intending to violate their visa but everything wrong in trying to thought-police some pretty soft ideas[1]. The tourist who was refused entry just for having that JD Vance meme on his phone seems to cross that line by quite some margin. For me, this administration has been a huge mask slip for pretty much all the "personal freedoms" talking points of GOP politicians/voters. Its appears it was never about "free speech" but rather the dominion of their speech. [0] https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceve3wl21x1o https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ceve3wl21x1o [1] https://time.com/7297472/jd-vance-meme-mads-mikkelsen-tourist-denied-entry-cbp-ice/ https://time.com/7297472/jd-vance-meme-mads-mikkelsen-touris...

IAmBroom 1y ago
> The tourist who was refused entry just for having that JD Vance meme on his phone seems to cross that line by quite some margin. My understanding is that he was stopped for other reasons, and that meme was questioned while he was being already detained. However, there's NO doubt this is not the America I grew up in.
mcv 1y ago
My solution is simply to not go to the US. I'm sorry. I know it used to be a great country, and there are still many great people living there, but I'm afraid the US dropped below China on the list of countries I'd like to visit. There are a hundred countries I'd feel safer.
moelf 1y ago
>set all their social media to private before going. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/g-s1-73572/us-resumes-visas-foreign-students-access-social-media https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/g-s1-73572/us-resumes-visas-f... : All students applying for a visa will need to set their social media profiles to "public," according to a post Wednesday on the State Department's website
- tim333 1y ago
  The answer may be to have more than one set of social media - one with your real ID you keep clean and upbeat for work, immigration etc and others in a modified name for other stuff.
supportengineer 1y ago
Create an alternate, pro-trump public social.
- GlitchRider47 1y ago
  Take it a step further, get a Trump phone on Trump mobile, loaded with pro-Trump public socials
  - drcongo 1y ago
    And don't forget to set the wallpaper to one of Trump's NFTs
  - tough 1y ago
    this is probably a billion business idea sell these by the airport duty-free for 20, or heck 50 a pop we could probably get the man himself to let us use his brand for a cut.
JohnTHaller 1y ago
They scrape all social media on a pro-active basis, so setting it to private before a trip won't help.
- mingus88 1y ago
  I set up accounts with my full legal name on them a while ago. There is minimal activity on them. If anyone wants to find me, msg me there. I do all my actual online activities with handles as God intended back in the good old days. Social media’s goal of connecting everyone with real names never was for our benefit and we all should stop giving them this data.
  - archagon 1y ago
    Unfortunately, AI will make it easy to deanonymize accounts en masse based on stylometry.

IAmBroom 1y ago

> The tourist who was refused entry just for having that JD Vance meme on his phone seems to cross that line by quite some margin. My understanding is that he was stopped for other reasons, and that meme was questioned while he was being already detained. However, there's NO doubt this is not the America I grew up in.

mcv 1y ago

My solution is simply to not go to the US. I'm sorry. I know it used to be a great country, and there are still many great people living there, but I'm afraid the US dropped below China on the list of countries I'd like to visit. There are a hundred countries I'd feel safer.

moelf 1y ago

>set all their social media to private before going. https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/g-s1-73572/us-resumes-visas-foreign-students-access-social-media https://www.npr.org/2025/06/19/g-s1-73572/us-resumes-visas-f... : All students applying for a visa will need to set their social media profiles to "public," according to a post Wednesday on the State Department's website

tim333 1y ago
The answer may be to have more than one set of social media - one with your real ID you keep clean and upbeat for work, immigration etc and others in a modified name for other stuff.

supportengineer 1y ago

Create an alternate, pro-trump public social.

GlitchRider47 1y ago
Take it a step further, get a Trump phone on Trump mobile, loaded with pro-Trump public socials
- drcongo 1y ago
  And don't forget to set the wallpaper to one of Trump's NFTs
- tough 1y ago
  this is probably a billion business idea sell these by the airport duty-free for 20, or heck 50 a pop we could probably get the man himself to let us use his brand for a cut.

JohnTHaller 1y ago

They scrape all social media on a pro-active basis, so setting it to private before a trip won't help.

mingus88 1y ago
I set up accounts with my full legal name on them a while ago. There is minimal activity on them. If anyone wants to find me, msg me there. I do all my actual online activities with handles as God intended back in the good old days. Social media’s goal of connecting everyone with real names never was for our benefit and we all should stop giving them this data.
- archagon 1y ago
  Unfortunately, AI will make it easy to deanonymize accounts en masse based on stylometry.